You need to press sample, choose your options , sample rates and set the treshold ( the little ll on the display after the *) that will make an automatic start when it reach that treshold. You can also set your prerecording in milisecond. Mine is usually around 40 ms. when youre ready you press Yes/Enter. -Start your sample on your turntable.When youre done press Yes/EnterItll ask you the root key....press whatever key you want your orginal sample to be triggered with ,,,the way im set , the rest of the key just up or downpitch the sample. It should also ask you where should your sample start and end....if its a loop or a one shot or backward...etc...When youre done you should have a sample on the instrument bank that you chose.repeat if you want to put more but be aware that your sample time is pretty limited on a EPS.

I just got an ASR10 today and Christ sake, this **** is pumping my blood. She doesnt want to cooperate at all. Very slugish and just hanging doing jack ****.

I used to record like 15mb with vocals and everything, full songs in my asr-10 [no other gear, all I had was an ASR back then) and never had problems. I’d have millions of floppies of vocals, singing and rapping.

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ASR’s are a magical peice of old hardware, but, if had no keyboard or sampler right now, I wouldn’t buy it. I only keep mine because it taught me A LOT and it’s sentimental. I don’t remember last time I turned it on. Maybe once earlier this year to test something out for a friend.

All of that repair, upgrade, upkeep. Is it worth it for what you are looking for? Gotta find a balance for needs, wants, willingness to put up with old technology issues and wallet size.

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Lampdog wrote:ASR’s are a magical peice of old hardware, but, if had no keyboard or sampler right now, I wouldn’t buy it. I only keep mine because it taught me A LOT and it’s sentimental. I don’t remember last time I turned it on. Maybe once earlier this year to test something out for a friend.

All of that repair, upgrade, upkeep. Is it worth it for what you are looking for? Gotta find a balance for needs, wants, willingness to put up with old technology issues and wallet size.

To have it i think so. I'm about to pull the trigger. theres a rack on ebay for $650 that looks like its in decent condition. (fingers crossed)

Lampdog wrote:ASR’s are a magical peice of old hardware, but, if had no keyboard or sampler right now, I wouldn’t buy it. I only keep mine because it taught me A LOT and it’s sentimental. I don’t remember last time I turned it on. Maybe once earlier this year to test something out for a friend.

All of that repair, upgrade, upkeep. Is it worth it for what you are looking for? Gotta find a balance for needs, wants, willingness to put up with old technology issues and wallet size.

It will be a learning expierince as well but im sure it isnt rocket science.

Have you had an asr before? It’s ALL manual, there is nothing automatic about it.It taught me a lot. My most used feature HAD to be “COPY PARAMS” in order to manipulate copies of samples without destroying the original. A 5kb non-destructive copy of the original sample.

COPY DATA would make a physical copy, doubling the space/storage.

Tip: Reduce sample rate on your deep/sub bass as far as you can, it will sound the same but astronomically save space/storage.

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Lampdog wrote:Have you had an asr before? It’s ALL manual, there is nothing automatic about it.It taught me a lot. My most used feature HAD to be “COPY PARAMS” in order to manipulate copies of samples without destroying the original. A 5kb non-destructive copy of the original sample.

COPY DATA would make a physical copy, doubling the space/storage.

Tip: Reduce sample rate on your deep/sub bass as far as you can, it will sound the same but astronomically save space/storage.

No i havent had an asr before. I'm aware to an extent of how manual the hardware is. The idea of using it is taking samples depending on what the sample is laying effects on in changing tune pitch etc. etc. at my dismay of how im wanting it to sound then sampling into the mpc then loop/chop or what ever same with the samples and drums and then bang that **** out in the mpc in sequences and then song mode then record into ableton. By having the effects already in place on the samples then i can still mulit track into ableton Thats what i have in mind. Ive noticed that when trying to multi track into ableton. lets say i have hpf fx using qlink on a sample on Track 2 when trying to mulit track record in ableton all tracks would sound fine except track 2. It sucks because i ususally have fx's on more than 1 track. I think in the long hall when i get close to what im wanting it will be all worth. sorry if i made you dumber by reading this.